WWII Timeline

  • Nuremberg Laws

    Laws that explained who was considered a Jew and prohibited marraige between Jews and Germans
  • Munich Conference

    Meeting between Hitler, Ialy, France, and UK, saying Hitler can annex the Sudelenland if he promises to not invade anywhere else.
  • Kristallnacht

    Attack on Jewish businesses by Nazis
  • St. Louis Affair

    After a Jewish passenger was not allowed on to Cuba, all 900 people were sent back to Germany, awaiting certain death.
  • Death Camps

    Camps built by the Nazi Germans to kill millions of people.
  • German Invasion of Poland

    German troops invaded Poland north, south, and east the morning after the Gleiwitz incident.
  • Death of FDR

    He died in Little White House from a stroke.
  • German Invasion of France

    The battle consisted of two operations, the first one is Case Yellow and the second one is Case Red.
  • Dunkirk

    A battle part of the Battle of France on the Western Front.
  • Pearl Harbor

    2402 American died with 1282 wounded
  • Wake Island

    Begun simultaneously with the attack on Pearl Harbor
  • Wannsee Conference

    Purpase was to appoint Reinhard Heydrich as the chief executor of the "Fianl solution to the Jewish question."
  • Bataan Death March

    a 80 mile march with a high percent of deaths
  • Coral Sea

    The first battle when ships shot directly at eachother and aircrafts engaged another
  • Midway

    Japanese plan was to trap U.S. aircrafts and occupy Midway.
  • Guadalcanal

    The Allies planned on using the island as a way to get to Japan's major base.
  • Stalingrad

    Nazis fought the Soviets for the control of the city Stalingrad.
  • Invasion of North America

    Called Operation Torch, it was the first offesive operation by the US forces into Egypt.
  • Invasion of Italy

    The landing of the Allied forces on mainland Italy
  • Tarawa

    First time in the war that American faced tough Jananese opponents
  • Tehran Conference

    The main outcome was the choice to have a second front against the Nazis
  • Philippines

    Use of guerrillas technquie between the Americans and Filipinos.
  • Fall of Rome

    Fell to American and Allied troops
  • D-Day

    the landing operations of the Allied forces on the Normandy beaches.
  • Battle of the Bulge

    This suprise attack cought the Allied forces off guard, causing it to be the highest in casualties of Americans.
  • Yalta Conference

    Intended mainly to re-establish of the nations after the war.
  • Iwo Jima

    The goal of the Americans was to capture the entire island tand the three airfeilds from the Japanese control.
  • Okinawa

    THe longest battle in the Pacific warfare during WWII
  • VE Day

    The day the Allied froces eccepted the surrender of Nazi Germany
  • Trinity Test

    Produced an explosive power of about 20 kilotons of TNT
  • Potsdam Conference

    They met to deiside on the punishment of the defeated Nazis.
  • Hiroshima

    The bomb that was dropped was Little Boy.
  • Nagasaki

    the bomb that fell was Fat Man
  • VJ Day

    The day that the Japanese surrendered, ending WWII